Explaining Neurodegenerative Disease

Bridging the Gap

ChemBE researchers have coaxed DNA nanotubes to assemble themselves into bridge-like structures arched between two molecular landmarks in a lab dish, potentially opening new lines of direct communication with living cells.

Water-Based ‘Engine’ Propels Tumor Cells

Professors Konstantopoulos and Sun have discovered a new mechanism that explains how cancer cells spread through extremely narrow three-dimensional spaces in the body by using a propulsion system based on water and charged particles.